If you have a couple of minutes, read Kenneth Roy's anecdote about the first time he carried out that most sensitive of reporting assignments: obtaining a picture of a newly deceased person from close relatives.
With Nicholas Tomalin's famous quote about the essential journalistic skills in mind, it's headlined "With ratlike cunning and a plausible manner, I intruded into private grief."
Everyone who has ever carried out the task will identify with Roy's experience.
Source: Scottish Review
